Blank front-end, back-end works great
Development and Programming
So I just migrated an EE 4.1.3 site from local to dev/staging. The back-end CP works fine, no issues. However, the front-end is blank. Here are some things that I’ve tried, none of which brought any change or hint to what’s going on:
- removed .htaccess entirely
- had my host check error logs for suppressed PHP errors (couldn’t find any)
- tried turning debugging on in both, the index.php file and in config.php
- tried accessing domain.com/index.php directly, as well as domain.com/index.php/subpage-uri
Per PHP info, display_errors is ON and the database is connecting properly.
I’m stuck and not sure what to check next.
Have you double-checked all your paths in the event something differs in your dev/staging environment from your local?
Yep. I use a multi-environment config file so that’s definitely taken care of. I double-checked to be sure. I also switched to the standard single environment config and that produced the same results.
Give this a shot to eliminate potential hidden PHP errors:
https://gist.github.com/litzinger/5598641
Thanks Derek - that helped me find the issue (which was a Wygwam file needing to have an uppercase letter instead of lowercase).
Glad to help!
Incidentally do you happen to have the exact PHP error handy or can you trigger it again? I’m wondering if this is something we could trap so that on environments like this we could expose the error to the admin without having to add that PHP code.
Yep - I was able to reproduce. This time I got an additional error though (go figure). Here’s a screenshot of the error when I add the advanced php code from the gist: https://d.pr/i/yyvxSQ
The original error I got was similar to the first one in the screenshot in reference to Wygwam. That’s caused by the file in this screenshot (https://d.pr/i/G0XcDQ) needing to be Helper.php and not helper.php.
The second error is new though. Not sure what’s going on there. When I fix the Wygwam issue and remove the additional PHP code from index.php, everything works fine.
Hope that helps.
It does, thank you!